Four Norwegians entered a movie theatre early on Friday and emerged on Monday, 38 movies, 70 hours and 33 minutes later, with a new world record in “movie-guzzling”, Norwegian public radio NRK reported.
The four pale and exhausted movie enthusiasts, three men and a woman, beat the previous known film-watching record of 70 hours and nine minutes.
The movies watched over the nearly three days in the dark ranged from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featuring Johnny Depp, to Zozo, the tale of a young Lebanese boy who flees his war-torn homeland to find difficulties of a different kind as he tries to integrate into Swedish society.
“This morning, I threw up everything. I couldn’t eat anything. I was trembling and I felt very bad,” one of the movie-watchers, teenager Mats Peder Nilsen, told NRK.
In all, 11 people set out last Friday to beat the world record, but seven of them failed to keep awake, according to the radio station’s internet site. — AFP